{"id":6511,"date":"2014-01-07T16:30:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T21:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6511"},"modified":"2014-01-07T16:36:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T21:36:38","slug":"cnn-features-unc-in-analysis-that-claims-athletes-read-like-5th-graders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6511","title":{"rendered":"CNN features UNC in analysis that claims athletes &#8220;read like 5th-graders&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cnnlogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cnnlogo.jpg\" alt=\"cnnlogo\" width=\"200\" height=\"182\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6512\" \/><\/a>A CNN investigation published Tuesday, Jan. 7 found that public university student basketball and football players could read only up to an eight-grade level. A former learning specialist at UNC-Chapel Hill claims a Tar Heel basketball player she worked with couldn&#8217;t read or write.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Willingham researched the reading levels of 183 UNC athletes who played football or basketball from 2004 to 2012 and found that 60 percent read between fourth- and eighth-grade levels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CNN Headline: Some college athletes play like adults, read like 5th-graders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To read the article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/01\/07\/us\/ncaa-athletes-reading-scores\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">please click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A CNN investigation published Tuesday, Jan. 7 found that public university student basketball and football players could read only up to an eight-grade level. A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,1,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-uncategorized","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-1-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6516,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6511\/revisions\/6516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}